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change graphic card ID

Post by moodstubos »

hi guys :)

I would like to play SPORE with wine. I have read a lot of commands that this should be possible with the current wine build (witch special patch).

My problem is, that SPORE doesn't like my graphiccard. So it alerts that my GC isn't supported by the game.

Is it possible to change the graphiccard ID string, that wine will given to the game?

greets from germany

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Re: change graphic card ID

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moodstubos wrote:hi guys :)

I would like to play SPORE with wine. I have read a lot of commands that this should be possible with the current wine build (witch special patch).

My problem is, that SPORE doesn't like my graphiccard. So it alerts that my GC isn't supported by the game.

Is it possible to change the graphiccard ID string, that wine will given to the game?

greets from germany

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The alert is a only a warning?
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Post by moodstubos »

hi,

no, after the alert the game ends :(
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Post by jeffz »

moodstubos wrote:hi,

no, after the alert the game ends :(
did you launch the game using the -safe flag?

wine Sporebin/Sporebin.exe -safe
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Post by moodstubos »

Yes, I tried it.
First there comes the alert:
The system is below our min spec, and we cannot run at all.
than a secound one:
Running in safe mode
than the game ends.



Do you think, that the graphiccard-alert is no error, but only a warning and the stoping of the game has another reason?

Greets
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Post by jeffz »

moodstubos wrote:Yes, I tried it.
First there comes the alert:
The system is below our min spec, and we cannot run at all.
than a secound one:
Running in safe mode
than the game ends.



Do you think, that the graphiccard-alert is no error, but only a warning and the stoping of the game has another reason?

Greets
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Which video card do you have and can you paste the terminal output when you run the command
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Post by moodstubos »

lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M G (rev a1)
driver is loaded:
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
wine output:

fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW 0x3424d0 0x34d6e8 0x3411ac 1 0x2fcfb78 (null) (null) 0x34d6f0
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x9c): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xa4): stub
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 94 (SPI_GETMOUSETRAILS)
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 4124 (SPI_GETMOUSESONAR)
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x2fceec0,0x00000000), stub!
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Post by moodstubos »

no idea? :(
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Post by qwertymn »

If you're 100% sure that the game will run on your card in Windows, and it fails in wine, i'd say open a bug in bugzilla.

Attach the input from logfiles (the file d3d.log) created by running

WINEDEBUG=+d3d_caps wine Sporebin.exe &>d3d.log

and from glxinfo.
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